[ June 16, 2026 ]
What’s next? Denying adoption if one doesn’t use the correct pronouns? So you cannot adopt child unless you accept transmania.
And where is our Constitutional right to freedom of religion?
I’m a Christian and I’m Suing My State Because It Refused to Let Me Adopt Children
State officials rejected my application, excluding me from adoption because I refused to abandon my religious beliefs.ADVERTISEMENT
Jessica Bates tells her story here.
Christian mother sues state for denying adoption over her gender beliefs
By Taylor Penley, Fox News, April 5, 2023:
An Oregon mother of five claims her religious beliefs on gender barred her from adopting a pair of siblings in her state, and now she’s taking to the courts to fight for her First Amendment rights.
Jessica Bates told “Fox & Friends First” on Wednesday that she was several months into the adoption process and successfully completed a portion of the training when the hurdle began.
ADVERTISEMENT“[I] reported to my certifier because they really emphasized the sexual orientation and gender identity training, that you have to support it,” she said. “I emailed her and told her I couldn’t do that because of my faith, and then we had a phone call and, because I wouldn’t take a child for cross-sex hormone injections, I was basically told that I’m ineligible to adopt in the state of Oregon.”
According to Oregon’s Department of Human Services, the state’s adoption application requires that potential parents “respect, accept and support… the sexual orientation, gender identity, [and] gender expression” of children.
Christina Kiefer, senior counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom, says the state’s actions are simply another example of putting “ideology and politics over children.”
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